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Posted in thread: Southern Tier Pumking Clone?? on 09-27-2011 at 02:18 PMLast year I tasted and smelled hazelnut in the aroma. It didn't seem as strong to me in the
bottle I had this year, but I still get a hint of it. Hazelnut is not unheard of in pumpkin pie
or beer. I d...

Posted in thread: New Glarus Golden Ale on 10-15-2010 at 02:44 PMI’ll definitely be following this thread. I’m interested to see what you come up
with and how it turns out. I have an idea of how I would go about this clone, and I may give it
a go when m...

Posted in thread: New Glarus Golden Ale on 10-14-2010 at 05:10 PMThe dregs from a single bottle of Orval has been enough in my experience, but I generally do
small 3.25 gallon batches. The brett does take time to do its work. When I harvested from the
NG golden i g...

Posted in thread: New Glarus Golden Ale on 10-14-2010 at 03:57 PMNG's Golden Ale is a fantastic beer. It is very Orval-like. There are lots of Orval clone
recipe's out there that I think would be close. You might need to adjust the color malts
slightly to get the m...

Posted in thread: Using frozen wet hops on 05-04-2010 at 02:06 PMA friend of mine gave me a couple of bags of Willamette hops that his neighbor had grown and
frozen. They were about six months old. One bag contained hops that were dried and then frozen,
the other b...

Posted in thread: American Pilsner malt VS Continental Pilsner malt on 04-01-2010 at 06:49 PMi guess i was thinking that if you really wanted to nail down the character that the various
pils malts are contributing , then brewing a beer without a dominating hop or yeast character
might be help...

Posted in thread: American Pilsner malt VS Continental Pilsner malt on 04-01-2010 at 04:10 PMThe yeast could complicate differentiation slightly in the BPA depending on which one you use.
I think wlp515 would be a great BPA yeast for comparing pils.Malt nuances are pretty apparent
in a Helles...